The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-12-15

j. II. Meyers, young inventor OF
Washington, has invented plan which
he believes to be superior to cremation,
burial, or any other ancient or modern
method oftreating dead bodies. The new
Mausoleum and Safe Deposit for the
Dead is the name of this new contrivance.
Mr. Meyers's plan may be regarded as a
compromise between the two extremes of
interment and cremation. In fire. proof
building, spaces will be provided just
large enough to hold single coffin.
When dead body is placed in one ofthese
the door of the apartment is hermetically
sealed. Running from these apartments
are tubes which bring air into the dead
rooms and also carry it downward by
forced draft to a central furnace below,
where are consumed ali gases and fluids
escaping from the bodies. Dead bodies
treated in this manner will, in short
time, it is claimed, become naturally
preserved or dried, and so remain.
- There is curious we'll of water at
the Kelly place, near Mr.. Tyler Gaskin's
in this county. The we'll is about twenty
feet deep, and the water on one side of it
is all the time bubbling up like water
when it is boiling. On the opposite side
of the we'll the water is in a constant
state of agitation, Sizing and popping
as though it was confined in hot vessel.
The noise can be heard some distance
from the we'll. The water is cold and
fine for use. This information is obtain.
ed from gentleman who has recently
seen the we'll, and who says it is great
curiosity. This phenomenon has been
going on for some williamsburg
County Record.
= John Slillman, the conductor on the
fated train which carried seyenty.eight
souls to death at Chatsworth, ILL.,, on the
night of the 18th ult., is visiting a broth
er in Glinnell. Since the frightful oc.
currence Conductor Stillman has lost
forty-three pounds of flesh, his sleep is
filed with dreams of the terrible wreck,
and he has not known night of restful
slun,ber since the accident. He is off on
leave of absence from the road. They
have sent him off to go where ne pleases
and stay as long as he wishes, with orders
to look to the company for anything he
wants, 10 matter what it is.
Rev. W. G. Lindsay, pastor of the
Baptist church, of Columbia, at the be.
ginning of services Sunday morning said
be wanted 10 make statement concern
ing lis recent attack on the Columbia
club. He then related the particulars of
what had transrired between him and
the club committee several days ago, and
read the written denial of the committee
that the club allowed gambling, either
for pastime or money, on Sundays or any
other time. The doctor said he was glad
to have this statement from the club, and
expressed regret that he had in this par
ticular done an injustice to the cub.
The riAeman of the future will
neatly perforate the enemy with 80
calibre steel. covered bullet, the wounds
from which, it has been pointed out, will
heal much more rapidly than the gunshot
wounds made by the big and ragged 49,
calibre bullets now in use. 1t is un.
doubtedly point favor of the little bullet
that it wouldn't muss up the people
whom it might be sent out to slay. What
the man who should be killed would
thiuk about it is not likely to be known.
Marion County has three brag far
mers whose work is hard to beat. Mr..
Duncan McLaurin with one mule made
twenty.six bales OF cotton, and bounti-
full supply of corn, fodder, potatoes and
peas. The cotton was made on twenty.
five scres. Nelson Billings, negro ten
ant living on Capt w. Fl. Steed's planta.
ton, made sixteen bales of cotton and
plenty of provisions. A negro tenant on
Col E. T. Stackhouse's place has now to
bis credit $3.50 made the year.
- Reports from the Southern cotton
mills show an important improvement,
the consumption of cotton having in
creased 10000 bales, or nerly 81 per cent
in the last six months. In the last three
months thirty.two cotton factories have
been established in the South. What is
more, many of the products of these cot
ton mills are finding their way into fore
ign markets.
A Kentucky justice, in order to
decide the ownership of a hog claimed
by two persons, released the porker, and
it: made break for the sty in which it
had been reared. The other claimant has
appealed from the judgment of the court
and the hog.
"A man being requested by friend
to buy him some books, forgot all about
the matter till he accidentally met him
then, in his confusion, he endeavored to
"set matters straight" by nonchalantly
remarking: "By the way, [ never got the
letter you wrote about those books"
= The census of the city of Charleston,
just completed, shows total population
of 62,S57, a gain of nearly four per cent.
since the city census of 1885. The white
population is 27,543, aud the colored 3d..
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